Jorge Rodríguez Demands Maximum Penalty for Tareck El Aissami: Corruption Scheme Unveiled in Venezuela’s PDVSA

2024-05-01 13:29:00

Jorge Rodríguez requested the maximum penalty for Tareck El Aissami

The president of the National Assembly (AN, Parliament) of Venezuela, the Chavista Jorge Rodriguezrequested this Tuesday the maximum penalty -30 years- for the former Oil Minister Tareck El Aissamiaccused of being involved in a corruption scheme in the state-owned PDVSA.

The parliamentarian also asked the courts to consider applying the maximum penalty to the businessman. Samark Lopezfor their alleged participation in the plot, called ‘Pdvsa-Cripto’, for which 66 people have been arrested, and which had the objective, among others, of “damaging the Venezuelan economy.”

“I hope they put 30 years in prison for the traitor of Samark López and 30 years in prison for the traitor of El Aissami.“said Rodríguez, who accused both of trying to “damage the economic recovery process that President Nicolás Maduro had begun”.

The head of the AN named a “special commission” -which will be presided over by the first vice president of the Legislature, the ruling party Pedro Infante– to establish the “political responsibility“of the accused, so that the Public Ministry (MP, Prosecutor’s Office)”develop criminal responsibility of those who commit such serious crimes,” explained Rodríguez.

El Aissami and López, in addition to the former Minister of Economy and Finance Simon Zerpawere arrested on April 9 and later charged with the crimes of “treason, appropriation or distraction of public assets, boasting or valuing, money laundering and association to commit a crime”.

Archive photograph of former minister Tareck El Aissami (EFE/Miguel Gutiérrez)

According to the investigation, they carried out an economic conspiracy, “simultaneously with corruption“, with the aim of imploding the economy”through the destruction of the national currency and the astronomical rise” of the unofficial quote of the dollar in the country, where most prices are set in the US currency.

This Monday, the attorney general, Tarek William Saabassured that the opponents Leopoldo López, Julio Borges, Carlos Vecchio – all three in exile – and Carlos Ocariz, whom he linked to “a political conspiracy” linked to ‘Pdvsa-Cripto’, planned to “dissolve the State by any means.” “undemocratic” in collusion with the US and El Aissami.

The “link” between them was, according to Saab, James Story, a US official in charge of the US external office for Venezuela – which operated from Colombia – until last year.

The Venezuelan dictator, Nicolas Madurorecently asked “be relentless“against those who”betray the people and become corrupt” and, in this sense, proposed a constitutional reform to include the penalty of life imprisonment against the “vendepatria” and the corrupt, so that “those people rot for life in prison.”

(With information from EFE)

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